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...carry secret communications during World War II; in Northamptonshire, England. Lady Dilhorne's carrier pigeons returned to her home west of London with coded messages strapped to their legs that had been sent by secret agents and resistance fighters in Germany and occupied Europe. Her daughter Eliza Manningham-Buller is head of Britain's MI5 Security Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 12, 2004 | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...specializes in ironic, self-deprecating intelligence that ought to meet that modest goal. But in a hokey production all too typical of Washington's Shakespeare Theater, Hulce fails to make the words sound sincere and obscures the political and revenge narratives with muddling about real-or-feigned madness. Francesca Buller comes as close as anyone can to bringing off Ophelia's breakdown, and Franchelle Stewart Dorn provocatively sketches a Gertrude who senses her new husband's perfidy -- yet succumbs anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Dec. 7, 1992 | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...minutes into the second period, Cornell's John Wilson had an uncontested 15-11, shot from the right circle Blair, who had already recorded 19 saves in the first period, reached down and made an unreal glove stop on the low buller off Wilson's blade...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Work Overtime | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...knock it 'til you've tried it. LEROY G. BULLER, "Jesus Freak" Topeka, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1971 | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

Unlike the cower, says Perry, the buller is close to being "in a strong position to learn content rapidly and meaningfully, and to retain it. I have learned to be less concerned about the education of a student who has come to understand the nature of man's knowledge, even though he has not yet committed himself to hard work, than I am about the education of the student who, after one or two terms at Harvard, is working desperately hard and still believes that collected 'facts' constitute knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exams: When in Doubt, Bull | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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